Car rolled, but driver walked away from the crash site

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The controversial halo concept is once again a talking point in Formula One circles, following Fernando Alonso's huge crash in Australia on Sunday.

The McLaren-Honda driver was spotted on a Melbourne beach on Monday wearing a light bandage on his knee, but he said he will not be needing any further medical treatment beyond ice.

"This morning, the team doctor came and gave me the OK to travel and, as I said, I feel good," Alonso told Spanish radio Cadena Cope. "I do not think I will have any problems going forward. My body is a little sore -- as though I have been in a big washing machine on spin -- but I have no marks or anything swollen. Within two or three days, I will be back on the bike or something again."

The front page of the local Herald Sun newspaper, however, declared Alonso "The luckiest man alive," as the F1 safety debate reignited amid the governing FIA's push to cover the cockpits with the so-called halo concept for 2017.